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-Rockabye doesn't comment on Meganium's pot attempt-

Rockabye: <Uh, yeah, that looks good.>

<As for what to do next... try making another one?>

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All: <Yay~>

They all took a bit more clay each.

Amaura: <This is fun~>

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-Rockabye nods-

-Shinobi is out taking a walk with Pipit, a Sneasal, a bag hanging from a shoulder and a Froakie clinging almost sleepily to his head-

Shinobi: Still gotta name this little guy...

-Around that time he passes an advertisement for a certain Powder Snow game that's been pretty popular lately-

....

-Shinobi pulls the Froakie off of his head so they can look at eachother-

<Alright little guy, how's "Genji" sound?>

Froakie: ^_^

Shinobi: <You like that name?>

-Chuckle-

<Alright, Genji it is! And I'll teach you how to be an awesome ninja just like Sensei taught me.>

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Meganium: <Say, Rockabye, what are you doing here when you're not making clay stuff~?>

She looked at the Larvitar with a curious smile.

Rockabye: <Oh, not much, just stuff with the murder.>

<What about you?>

-Blitz and co might notice a Honchkrow-esque suit lumbering awkwardly towards them-

NI HQ

-A short pause-

Arthur:Useful how, exactly.

-His tone is not quite cold, but not quite accepting either-

Pokeball Storage

Uta:<Hey! I know someone without an arm who's bein' happy! Some kinda truama shouldn't be makin' ya hate everyone!>

-Hmph!-

NI HQ, Wilhelm's Office

Wilhelm: Weeelll, I had intended to extract information regarding a group strongly opposed to mine from them. Obviously I haven't managed that yet, so...

(He lets the implication hang in the air.)

NI HQ, Pokeball Storage

Quirinus: ~Good for him. Me, I choose to be realistic.~

NI HQ

-Cough-

Arthur:I see...

-Beeeat-

Do as you will. But harm them and there'll be hell to pay.

Pokeball Storage

Uta:<Humph.>

-She goes quiet-

Thanks to Mezzo, Crow, and Blitz for letting me write for their characters to finish these next few posts

OUR WARRIORS HAVE BEEN MISSING. THE ANOMALY HAS KEPT 
THEM FOR LONG ENOUGH. WE MUST TAKE ACTION. WE ARE A CULTURE OF 
STORYTELLERS. WE MUST TELL THIS ONE OURSELVES.

ONE

5 armored Dunsparce.

The fight in the Omega Room did not truly drag on for ages, but it certainly felt like it.

4 corrupted Garchomp.

The glitch experiments, codenamed the Elite Four, were incredibly powerful, no doubt. However, lucky for Samus and company, it comes with a heaping dose of violent, reckless madness — to the point where they started to attack each other rather than their original target. Before their very eyes, they tore each other apart.

It's horrifying.

"...Um." Wirrbelle, Venomous, and Aero all stare in shock at the sight.

"I'd say that's gross, but honestly, it's not even the worst we've seen," Mezzo comments dryly.

An Ice Beam fires out of Samus's cannon. "This isn't a time to stop and stare! Kill them while they're busy killing each other!"

Mezzo shrugs. "Can't argue with that." She releases a Dark Pulse against one of them.

3 panicked scientists.

In the side room, a trio of Gabite are scrambling about, trying to finish working.

"Come on, come on, how much more until we can finally let Project 0MEGA loose on these creeps?" one of them whines. Another smacks the first.

"Chill out, we've almost got it! Just a little bit more— "

"Um, guys, problem…"

2 fractures.

The first had been slowly building; sure, the room was designed to be able to withstand attacks such as Earthquakes (as well as normal, natural-disaster-type earthquakes), but having frequent Earthquake attacks from four huge, superpowered Garchomp goes a bit beyond the warranty.

The second, however, comes from one of the two remaining glitch Garchomp throwing the other into the glass case at the back of the room, completely shattering it (and leaving it unconscious, or worse). The creature inside thaws out, and wakes up.

1 champion.

The scientists in the other room gape as they watch their last resort stir. An absolutely enormous Garchomp emerges, glitches having forced it into an unnatural Mega Evolution. It roars, and in a blind fury, charges at the lesser Garchomp that had the misfortune of being the one to wake it up. We'll leave the resulting gore up to your imagination. The various Pokemon in the room don't nearly have that sort of luxury.

Samus scans the beast with her visor.

0 - MEGA

edited 7th Jan '17 6:41:38 PM by BittersweetNSour

-The Sneasel is the first to notice, and just headtilts at the strange sight before realizing yes, it probably is coming for them and tugging on Shinobi's bag strap-

Shinobi: <Hm?>

-She points, Shinobi turns, then puts the newly named Genji on the ground before waving as it draws close-

ZERO

The remains of Project 0MEGA's predecessors melt into puddles of glitch matter around the room. 0MEGA absorbs the glitch puddle that the final Elite melted into, forming glowing tumoresque bulges coming out of melted skin on the monstrosity's extremities.

"Gross," Venomous comments. If anyone could see her, they'd notice she looks rather ill.

Samus keeps scanning. "Those bulges seem to be a sort of weak point. Pop them."

"Did you really need to describe it with 'pop'?" Aero mutters, starting to shoot at the creature. The others shoot as well, aiming attacks of all sorts at it, but all the shots are drawn into one of its outstretched scythe-claws, forming into a glowing orb at the tip. Samus motions toward everyone to stop firing.

"What's it doing now?" Wirrbelle asks nobody in particular. As if to answer, the energy ball turns staticky with glitch matter, and 0MEGA plunges it along with its claw into the ground, causing a shockwave to erupt. The group's visors go staticky for a moment as it hits, but Mezzo's clears up first, in time for her to notice the creature struggling to pull its claw out of the ground.

"Oh, good. This one makes stupid decisions too." She fires an Ancient Power at the bulges on its shoulders, causing it to screech and yank its claw out of the ground, reeling. Wirrbelle's visor clears up in time to see it stumbling backward.

"I think I have an idea," Wirrbelle says, and she rushes forward while the creature is staggering. She slams the ground with her arm cannon right under its legs, creating an Earthquake. In the midst of the quake, 0MEGA ends up toppling over, crushing the other weak points in the process. Samus's visor clears up.

"Oh, good, you got it, let's finish it off already," she says, charging her cannon as Venomous and Aero keep trying to get their visors working. However, before she can find a good spot to aim at, the monster's form fades, and temporarily all anyone can see are veins of glitchy fluid before they too vanish from sight.

"...Did it just die?" Wirrbelle looks around for any sign of it. As it turns out, the "sign" ends up being Venomous yelping as an invisible force knocks her aside. The force turns her visor back on, but she still can't see it.

Aero, meanwhile, tampers with her visor more, and finally it flickers back on. However, everything appears as a glowy blue color. "Um… well, I got the Aura visor thing working again, at least!" She looks around, and sees the Aura a veiny figure hovering over the remains of one of the previously-defeated experiments. Quickly, she charges and fires an Ice Beam directly toward the center. With a deafening roar, the veins become visible again, and out of sheer murderous rage, abandon the pool of glitch matter and charge toward Aero.

"Now! Give it everything we have!" Samus commands, and the group starts firing shots at the approaching glitch figure. Its rampage slows down bit by bit, until it can barely walk. By the time it's in range to attack… it falls. Right on top of the five Dunsparce. They all brace themselves as the creature melts right above them, covering all of their suits with glitches.

"...I feel like this is bad," Venomous says to nobody in particular.

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Tropius: <Murder?>

Meganium: <We're playing here, sometimes Dungeons & Dragons but mostly catch and hide and seek, also we're solving all kinds of mysteries.>

edited 7th Jan '17 6:50:54 PM by Sergey_Smirnov

CHASE

"Bad!? You think getting covered with that stuff is bad!?" One of the Gabite scientists jumps out of the now-broken window of the other room and stomps over to the five Dunsparce. "You just destroyed our last chance of recontaining PRIMA 1!"

One of the other Gabite mutters in the distance, "Can't you just call it 'Prime' like everyone else?"

Mezzo crosses her suit's arms. "What is Prime, anyway?"

"Long story short, we tried using a glitch core to reanimate a skeleton of one of the Kabutops experiments, Ridley decided we needed to turn it into a living weapon, it got too powerful and escaped! And now it's heading toward Spear Pillar!"

Wirrbelle pipes up. "Uh, how do you know it's toward Spear Pillar? And why?"

The Gabite gets very nervous.

"Um… we may have been attempting to experiment with the Conversion moves to create a type-changing system reminiscent of Arceus's plates? Hence why you ended up finding so many of them here?"

A roar comes through the broken window. The Gabite panics. An orange-winged, deep purple dragon comes flying through and lands in front of everyone, pointedly smacking the Gabite aside with his wing.

"And I'm going to make damn well sure you idiots destroy the thing before it gets anywhere important!" Ridley snarls.

"Didn't we incinerate you the last time we met?" Mezzo says. "I would have liked that a lot better than having to deal with you again. Heck, I'd prefer having to deal with Fortis's Ridley over you."

"Charizard can always survive when they're in their element!" Ridley boasts. "Volcanic areas are our natural homes!"

"Whatever."

Samus interrupts before the conversation can drag on any longer. "How about we stop talking and get moving, then? With every second we waste, that slippery bastard gets farther away!"

"Fine. Brace yourself." Before anyone can react, Ridley swings a glitch-cloaked tail at the group...

And suddenly everyone is halfway up Mt. Coronet. In the distance, an abomination that might have been a Kabutops once-upon-a-time but now appears oddly spider-like is scrambling up the mountain.

"Don't let it get away!" Ridley roars, pursuing Prime while everyone else is still recovering from the glitchy Dragon Tail.

Rockabye: -to Tropius- <Yup, murder.>

-to Meganium- <Oh? What kind of mysteries?>

-The suit lumbers forward a bit more, then gives a wide wave of its sleeve-

-Shinobi might then hear a voice they might recognize-

Sholto: <Heya, Shinobi!>

ENGAGE

Ridley attempts to use Earth Power on Experiment PRIMA1, but after the first eruption, some of the dark spots on its body glow green and the attack stops having any effect on it. Samus scans the beast.

"Conversion 2 and Wonder Guard?"

A few groans can be heard from the rest of the group. At least one voice can be heard saying "you've got to be kidding."

"We handled the Unown clusters just fine, we can handle this!" Samus shouts. "Just figure out what hits it hard and, well, hit it hard!"

Venomous shrugs. "Hit it harder. Okay then."

"A plan I can always get behind," Mezzo says, firing an Ice Beam at the creature, which is attempting to outrun Ridley. It hits its mark, causing PRIMA-1 to hiss, turn a silvery-gray, and fire a series of Flash Cannons at the party.

Most of the party is hit, but Aero manages to jump out of the way. She and Ridley attempt several Flamethrowers as the creature climbs further up the mountain, but only one hits before it changes to a deep blue. The rest of the party recovers just in time for Aero to get slammed with a Hydro Pump. Wirrbelle runs to catch her before she falls down the mountain.

"This isn't working, it's climbing faster than we can follow it," Wirrbelle groans.

"If you give up on this I'll personally see to it that you all don't make it tomorrow anyway!" Ridley roars. "Suck it up and do something better!"

"I really don't like you," Samus mutters, calibrating her arm cannon to fire a Thunder Wave at PRIMA-1. "Guys, hit it with whatever you can after this!"

She shoots the Thunder Wave off, and Prime's movements immediately slow down. The rest of the party bombards it with Thunder, earning a screech of pain from the creature before it finally has time to change type again, gaining an indigo glow.

"Okay, what now? Ghost?" Mezzo shoots a Dark Pulse at the creature, only for it to bounce off harmlessly.

"I'm thinking Dragon, if I remember Conversion 2 correctly," Venomous says. As if on cue, Ridley smacks Prime down the mountain with Dragon Tail. It grabs Ridley's tail to drag him down as it tumbles, and turns a pale pink.

"Fairy," the entire group mutters simultaneously.

Once Prime regains its footing, it pins Ridley down and stabs through both of his wings with its claws, ripping them. Ridley roars in pain and kicks it away, forcing himself to his feet and staggering a bit, watching uselessly as Prime claws its way back up the mountain, stumbling occasionally due to its paralysis.

"Any of you idiots got anything that can hit this thing now? I'm out of commission," Ridley growls, clearly not happy about his newly-clipped wings.

Samus thinks. "Only one thing in our arsenal now, and we'll have to get very close to it to make it work."

"Well then, what are you waiting for? Get running already!" On Ridley's command, everyone starts rushing up the mountain, as fast as their mech suits can carry them.

Shinobi: <Sholto?>

-He chuckles at the sight, while Pipit headtilts-

<What are you doing in that human get up? I didn't even recognize it was you under there>

RETIRE

The group finally makes it to the top of Spear Pillar. There, Prime is skittering around, seeming to look for something. Samus gestures to keep quiet, then starts slowly sneaking toward the distracted bio-experiment. The sound of her cannon-arm cloaking itself in toxins makes it turn around, just in time to get Poison Jabbed right in a crack in its exoskeleton.

The shell shatters. After a brief futile effort to keep itself together, the glitches stop, then finish ripping it apart and escape. The five watch in uncomfortable anticipation as the shell melts into a puddle of glitch fluid, and the core floats in the air, a vaguely brainlike shape with six tentacles coming off of it and the slightest semblance of a face on the front.

"Oh, come on, wasn't the first one enough?" Mezzo growls and shoots it with a Dark Pulse. The attack bounces off it harmlessly, just like before.

"Wonder Guard still?" Wirrbelle asks. Prime's core charges a glitchy energy ball while Samus scans it.

"Wonder Guard, yes, but, new problem. It's typeless." Samus switches back to normal visor functions just in time to dodge the core sending a shockwave through the ground.

"So… we can't attack it at all, then. Figures," Aero grumbles, trying to think. "Is it still paralyzed?"

"No it's not. It must have healed from that when it shed its exoskeleton," Samus affirms.

"Then I'll hit it with Toxic," Venomous suggests, and shoots a sickly purple ball at the creature. It shrivels slightly as it suffers slight poison damage, before sending a wave of psychic energy back at Venomous. Suddenly, rather than Prime being poisoned, Venomous is instead. She groans at the unfamiliar, sickly feeling.

"Oh, for the love of… How about you stop being a coward, huh? Don't think you can beat us on your own?" Mezzo Taunts the core. In rage, it throws a ball of energy at her, faster than she can dodge. She staggers back.

"Well, that's one problem solved, but now it's going to kill us faster than we can hurt it!" shouts Venomous, shooting another Toxic. This time, the core's reaction is to flicker out of sight.

"Not this thing, too…" Aero switches to her Aura visor, followed by everyone else, just in time to see the silhouette of the core slam into Samus, knocking her into the pool of glitch fluid left by its shell. She shudders as the glitches start swelling into her suit. Aero runs over to her to make sure she's okay, and sees "O̴̼̬̘̭͕̤͖̙̝̤͠V̢̢̗̟͓̝̦̕͘ͅÉ̳̞̲͈͕͕̝̳͚̣̬͇͙̳̞̖̘͉̭̀R̸̳̮̝̗̼̬͉̥͖̟͡ͅL҉̶̴̻̩͍̲̟͉̪̭͔͕͙̗͚̙͡͞ͅO̵̡͎̦̞̮͙̙̖̞͓͎̤͖̩͈̕A̷̢̤̹͍͍̼̖̟̬̟͟͝Ḏ̛̛̰͙̪͚̼͇͔͖ͅ" flashing on her visor.

Suddenly, a beam of glitchy energy erupts from Samus's arm cannon, and she screams in pain. Despite it, she manages to aim it at Prime, earning a screech of pain from it as well.

Aero hesitates, glances back at the others, then braces herself and steps into the glitch pool as well. Like Samus, her suit starts overflowing as well, and she struggles to gesture toward the others to join them in the attack. One by one, they add to the one final super glitch wave, dealing more and more severe damage to the core.

Out of desperation, Prime forces itself forward, directly into the beam, and tries to reach toward the five with its tentacles. It manages to grip Aero, Mezzo, Venomous, and Wirrbelle with one tentacle each, and uses its last one to cling to Samus, even as its body quickly decays.

With a deafening screech, it starts glowing, and everything implodes into a swirling purple flash.

Experiment PRIMA1 is gone.

Samus is gone.

The glitch pool is gone.

Any sign that a glitch was here is gone.

The other four are back to their original forms, panting on the ground, surrounded by the Plates of Arceus that they had collected.

<Did… did we beat it?> Venomous nervously asks.

<I think so… but…> Wirrbelle looks around. <I think it took Samus down with it…>

"...Well, there's no use mourning. We made it. After who the hell knows how long. If you don't mind, I'm going back to where things are actually normal." Mezzo turns around and starts trudging down the mountain. Wirrbelle and Venomous glance at each other, then follow her.

Aero, meanwhile, looks around at the scattered Plates. She gathers them up, heads toward the back of Spear Pillar, and arranges them along the wall in order, half a sentence written on each, except for the last, divided amongst three:

"When the universe was created, its shards became these Plates."

"The power of defeated giants infuse these Plates."

"Two beings of time and space set free from the Original One."

"Three beings were born to bind time and space."

"Two make matter and three make spirit, shaping the world."

"The Original One breathed alone before the universe came."

"The powers of Plates are shared among Pokémon."

"The rightful bearer of a Plate draws from the Plate it holds."

With the Plates where they belong, Aero takes off and leaves as the others did.

XXXXX

Sholto: <I dunno, just suddenly thought about when I wore it while taking on the Hoenn League and decided to wear it again for the fun of it.>

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Amaura: <Well once there were these Pokéblocks that went missing, and then there was this Weedle we had to search.>

Tropius: <Can we help~?>

Shinobi: <You did the Hoenn gym challenge?>

-He rubs his chin thoughtfully-

<Pretty hard to tell there's a Honchkrow under there, even if you look a little off for human standards. Didn't realize J-teamers were doing the league besides Jason back there, how far did you get?>

Sholto: <Oh, I managed to beat the Champion.>

<Jacob, Sarah, and Ever did too, though the lattermost nearly got killed by a Latios who had been pretending to be a Tropius.>

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-Groaning from bed-

Ugh...

Why'd I have to manage to get a cold, I almost never get sick...

Shinobi: <Sweet>

-He nods-

<Sorry to have missed it. Don't think I've ever heard of near murders during a challenge thought>

=/

Sholto: <No worries. I don't think any of us were really expecting it either.>